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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
May 10, 2001 12:07
Subject:
Re: Perl, the new generation
Message ID:
20010510140659.Z772@chaos.wustl.edu
> If you talk that way, people are going to start believing it.  The
> typical Perl 6 program is not going to look very different from the
> typical Perl 5 program.  The danger of us continually talking about
> the things we want to change is that people will forget to notice the
> tremendous amount of stuff that we aren't changing.

Maybe, but for one I'm starting to wonder.  TomC's rant rang true in
my ears.  How much can we change and still call it the same language?
I'm not yet panicking, I'm just trying to hug some firm ground here.

> Larry

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